If you build OBS from source and would like more than a 3-band equalizer without a plugin, I've still got my eq8 branch getting stale here:
https://github.com/phkahler/obs-studio/tree/eq8
I should rebase that...
BTW they do not want it upstream for whatever reasons. I'm not complaining, I get it. But some of us like this built-in so I'm keeping it around.
What's the drawbacks of having equalizer as a plugin as opposed to core?